From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Thu Jul 14 18:38:07 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CDB6B997EC for ; Thu, 14 Jul 2016 18:38:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cwr@core.cwross.com) Received: from out5-smtp.messagingengine.com (out5-smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.29]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 104421C36 for ; Thu, 14 Jul 2016 18:38:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cwr@core.cwross.com) Received: from compute5.internal (compute5.nyi.internal [10.202.2.45]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 077C5207F4 for ; Thu, 14 Jul 2016 14:38:05 -0400 (EDT) Received: from web3 ([10.202.2.213]) by compute5.internal (MEProxy); Thu, 14 Jul 2016 14:38:05 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=cwross.com; h= content-transfer-encoding:content-type:date:from:message-id :mime-version:subject:to:x-sasl-enc:x-sasl-enc; s=mesmtp; bh=fhX 9JKiUbQoFj6RL2d1Z36AjcNc=; b=Onq14EbS9k2IVNAp13cstDGuahCPywZo8aN uc9bHGcgb2ieFD1WPofQImBMEMdq35mR+XB5scsLndllVsysb/YSdrQs64rBDitl vWmnHlYPkPAsPJbPm94bqwDQm5ud89DMwEjrdTlKhzY33U+eCDRcAMCQPmUs+Gm7 uE3EGufc= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=content-transfer-encoding:content-type :date:from:message-id:mime-version:subject:to:x-sasl-enc :x-sasl-enc; s=smtpout; bh=fhX9JKiUbQoFj6RL2d1Z36AjcNc=; b=AKQI1 WwrHTahYX3iHfnOS5KKCCtnpknSPBeckw0uWMDtYaWHcMRPJ8r6mDPsr3Hg5Vbdw LMiy/IrrwD0ACVpwO7/BVomHFxrcNZfJ5JIPheiNsaRokDU7KKFYc6UqgDHATWpj SVbUqL7ZixhMAqsKVFQKmoWH6QZO0zAqaJvYmU= Received: by mailuser.nyi.internal (Postfix, from userid 99) id C5C2816719; Thu, 14 Jul 2016 14:38:04 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <1468521484.1902241.666492977.004D389B@webmail.messagingengine.com> X-Sasl-Enc: Uq2oQS6fCudyOBJ38uulvF222hyO0xis07ZV8afNvDRY 1468521484 From: "Charles W. Ross" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain X-Mailer: MessagingEngine.com Webmail Interface - ajax-bf4e2c8f Subject: USB Audio Volume Too High Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2016 14:38:04 -0400 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.22 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2016 18:38:07 -0000 Hi everyone, I have a cheap, generic USB sound card (pcm2 on my system) that is giving me trouble on FreeBSD 10.3. It works just fine, except for the fact that the audio output seems to be at the maximum level (way too high), and I can't seem to adjust it. (I know the card itself is OK because it works normally in Linux). Below I've included some relevant output. My current 'mixer' output: cwr@nuc:~ % mixer Mixer vol is currently set to 0:0 Mixer pcm is currently set to 0:0 Mixer mic is currently set to 0:0 And yet, the output of the device is full-blast. Here are all the relevant sysctls: cwr@nuc:~ % sysctl -a | grep pcm.2 dev.pcm.2.feedback_rate: 0 dev.pcm.2.mixer.mute_3.desc: dev.pcm.2.mixer.mute_3.max: 1 dev.pcm.2.mixer.mute_3.min: 0 dev.pcm.2.mixer.mute_3.val: 0 dev.pcm.2.mixer.vol_2.desc: dev.pcm.2.mixer.vol_2.max: 6096 dev.pcm.2.mixer.vol_2.min: 794 dev.pcm.2.mixer.vol_2.val: 0 dev.pcm.2.mixer.mute_1.desc: USB AUDIO dev.pcm.2.mixer.mute_1.max: 1 dev.pcm.2.mixer.mute_1.min: 0 dev.pcm.2.mixer.mute_1.val: 0 dev.pcm.2.mixer.vol_0_1.desc: USB AUDIO dev.pcm.2.mixer.vol_0_1.max: 17152 dev.pcm.2.mixer.vol_0_1.min: 0 dev.pcm.2.mixer.vol_0_1.val: 0 dev.pcm.2.mixer.vol_0_0.desc: USB AUDIO dev.pcm.2.mixer.vol_0_0.max: 17152 dev.pcm.2.mixer.vol_0_0.min: 0 dev.pcm.2.mixer.vol_0_0.val: 0 dev.pcm.2.bitperfect: 0 dev.pcm.2.buffersize: 0 dev.pcm.2.rec.vchanformat: s16le:2.0 dev.pcm.2.rec.vchanrate: 24000 dev.pcm.2.rec.vchanmode: fixed dev.pcm.2.rec.vchans: 1 dev.pcm.2.play.vchanformat: s16le:2.0 dev.pcm.2.play.vchanrate: 48000 dev.pcm.2.play.vchanmode: fixed dev.pcm.2.play.vchans: 2 dev.pcm.2.hwvol_mixer: vol dev.pcm.2.hwvol_step: 5 dev.pcm.2.%parent: uaudio0 dev.pcm.2.%pnpinfo: dev.pcm.2.%location: dev.pcm.2.%driver: pcm dev.pcm.2.%desc: USB audio And finally /dev/sndstat: cwr@nuc:~ % cat /dev/sndstat Installed devices: pcm0: (play) pcm1: (play) pcm2: (play/rec) default Any help to adjust the output level of this device would be greatly appreciated! Thanks, Charlie